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18/12/2015 (Reuters) - Thursday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT.

18/12/2015 (Business Standard) - Select edible oil remained weak for the second day and prices shed another Rs 50 per quintal at the wholesale market today owing to slackened demand from vanaspati millers.

18/12/2015 (Bernama) - Crude palm oil (CPO) futures contracts on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives ended lower today, weighed by the weakness in soybean oil prices on the Chicago Board of Trade, a dealer said.

18/12/2015 (The Phnom Penh Post) - Government and business representatives continue to remain optimistic about Cambodia’s prospects after the ASEAN Economic Community integration next year, saying that the Kingdom had upped production levels and strengthened quality measures to remain competitive in the region.

17/12/2015 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets.

17/12/2015 (Reuters) - Tuesday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT.

17/12/2015 (Anadolu Agency) - The Liberian palm plantation Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL) plans expansion thanks to a $30 million investment in modern facilities.

17/12/2015 (The Phnom Penh Post) - Exports of crude palm oil from the Mong Reththy Company – the Kingdom’s sole producer of the product – increased 8.1 per cent for the first 11 months this year, compared to the same period in 2014.

17/12/2015 (Business Standard) - Crude palm oil prices recovered by 0.49% to Rs 411 per 10 kg in futures trade today as speculators built up fresh positions at prevailing levels amid pick up in demand in the spot market.

17/12/2015 (Reuters) - Indonesia's crude palm oil (CPO) output slipped 7 percent in November from the previous month, a Reuters survey showed, as the main harvest season ended and monsoon weather arrived in key growing areas.

17/12/2015 (The Guardian) - As global oil prices continue to fall sharply over the past 18 months, Nigerians, for an economy that is largely dependent on oil needs not be told that tough times beckons. Thus we must recognise the urgency and severity of the matter. As a matter of fact, all efforts must be geared and directed towards the ‘rejected stone,’ which must now become the chief corner stone as a means to set the nation’s economy on a path of rebirth and recovery.

17/12/2015 (UkrAgroConsult) - Oilseed price levels are at a six-year low and soybean prices are down more than 52 percent from their 2012 peak. Will the decline continue? What impact will El Niño have on major origins of oilseeds and feed grains? Keynote speaker David Hightower will address these issues and more at the Oilseed Congress Europe/MENA in Barcelona, Spain, 9-10 February 2016, at the Hilton Barcelona.